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Bagel With Egg & Cheese at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

Egg, cheese on bagel. Sandwich Score 40, rough. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

Bagel With Egg & Cheese at Eunice Gourmet Cafe: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Eunice Gourmet Cafe, a cafe in Albany, California.

BagelCheese (generic)EggBagel
40
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +12.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
74
Harmony
42
Contrast
15
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
21
Quality
100
Envelope
100

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

bagel, served cold: egg; cheese.

Balance

salt1.2 · 61stacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.8 · 74thsweet0.0umami2.0 · 74thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.261st
acid0.442nd
fat2.874th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.074th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

76 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
bagelbreadsoft chewythe frame
eggproteinfat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy+1
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+3

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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